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Publication Chair’s Editorial - Insights and Innovations: An Array of Scholarly Advancements Emerging from the University of Calgary
Full text linkIntroductory editorial from the 2025 PBGRC Publication Chair. 
Reconstructing the Past: Bridging Deep History and Modernity for a Resilient Planet
Full text linkThis paper presents the critical roles of exploring deep-time human ecological histories to inform modern climate resilience and sustainability efforts. Building on existing data from paleoanthropological contexts across East Africa, this ongoing study seeks to demonstrate how our knowledge of long-term patterns of human ecological flexibility, innovation, and survival under intense and recurrent environmental changes offers insights for navigating modern climate crises. This paper advocates for the integration of Indigenous ecological knowledge with scientific enquiries
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Late antiquity in Troia: an isotopic study to investigate husbandry practices and early childhood diet
No full textEight human and seventeen faunal osteological samples from the Roman site of Tróia were analysed
for their bone-stable carbon, nitrogen, sulphur, and oxygen isotopic compositions through EA-IRMS
(Elemental Analyzer- Isotopic Mass Spectrometry), to ascertain the children’s dietary patterns and
animal husbandry practices on the site during Late Antiquity. The results obtained from the humans
indicate a diet based mainly on C3 plants, with addition of proteins of aquatic and terrestrial origins.
Results are consistent with age, reflective of childhood diets based on C3 plants with gradual
incorporation of fish products and animal proteins as the children aged. There are distinctions
between adult and childhood dietary patterns as the adult consumed more dietary protein such as
fish and/or terrestrial animals. Fauna also yielded results of dietary strategies based on C3 plant
materials. Variability in their carbon isotopic compositions indicates less intensive to no animal
management. Signals of non-local terrestrial faunal are detected which confirms historical,
archaeological and zooarchaeological suggestions of animal resources from cities further away.
Diagenetic alteration of the bone samples was assessed using ATR-FTIR, EA, and XRD, while the
presence of calcite within the bone mineral phase was detected. Being a pilot study, the sample size
is limited, and the hypothesis made will be contextualised within the results of an ongoing project
from the same site; Resumo
Foram analisadas oito amostras osteológicas humanas e dezassete amostras faunísticas do sítio romano
de Tróia para as suas composições isotópicas de carbono, azoto, enxofre e oxigénio estáveis
através de EA-IRMS (Elemental Analyzer- Isotopic Mass Spectrometry), para determinar os padrões
alimentares das crianças e as práticas de criação de animais no sítio durante a Antiguidade Antiga. Os
resultados obtidos dos seres humanos indicam uma dieta baseada principalmente em plantas C3, com
adição de peixe, proteínas de água doce e de origem terrestre. Os resultados são consistentes com a
idade, reflexo de dietas infantis baseadas em plantas C3, com incorporação gradual de productos de
peixe e proteínas animais à medida que as crianças envelhecem. Há distinções entre os padrões dietéticos
para adultos e para a infância. A fauna também produziu resultados de estratégias dietéticas
baseadas em plantas C3. A variabilidade nas suas composições isotópicas de carbono indica uma gestão
animal menos intensiva. São detectados sinais de fauna terrestre não-local que confirmam ainda
mais afirmações históricas, arqueológicas e zooarqueológicas. A alteração diagenética das amostras
ósseas foi avaliada utilizando ATR-FTIR, EA, e XRD, enquanto a presença de calcita dentro da fase mineral
óssea foi detectada. Sendo um estudo piloto, o tamanho da amostra é limitado, e a hipótese
feita será contextualizada pelos resultados de um projecto em curso a partir do mesmo local
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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